Privacy & Security

Privacy Policy

(Last updated September 6, 2005)

About This Notice

This privacy policy relates only to the Roni Lynn Deutch, a Professional Tax Corporation’s RoniDeutch.com website and On Line Account Services. We are committed to protecting your privacy and earning your trust. This notice describes the personal information we collect about you and how we use and protect it.

Summary

This section summarizes our privacy practices. For more detail, please read the entire privacy policy.

  • We gather information from you, your transactions with us, and other sources.
  • We use your information only to conduct our business and provide our services to you.
  • We will not share your information with unrelated companies for their marketing purposes without your consent.
  • We limit access to your information and use safeguards to help protect it.
  • You may review and correct your information.

We collect information about you to provide our services to you. This is called Nonpublic Personal Information or “NPI” if it identifies you and is not available to the public. We collect information from some or all of the following sources. We’ve provided a few examples for each source, but not all may apply to you.

  • Your Correspondence: You provide NPI in your correspondence with us. It includes your name, street and e-mail addresses, phone number, driver’s license number, Social Security number, date of birth, gender, marital status, income, assets and other personal and financial information.
  • IRS Transcripts: We obtain NPI from the Internal Revenue Service. This information includes your tax account(s) history, your compliance history and collection information.
  • Transactions: We obtain NPI about your transactions with us. This information includes your payments to us. It also includes NPI that we require for billing and payment.
  • Website: This NPI is unique to Internet transactions. It includes the Website that linked you to ours, your computer operating system, and the pages you viewed on our site. Some of our Websites may also store “cookies” on your computer. Cookies save certain NPI entered by you on our Websites. They also collect technical data, like your Internet protocol (IP) address, operating system, and session ID.

Who might get information about me from you?

We will share NPI about you only as permitted by law. We will not share your NPI with other companies for their marketing purposes without your consent. There is no need to “opt out” or tell us not to do this.

Disclosures include those we feel are required to provide our services or customer service, prevent fraud, perform research or comply with the law. Recipients include the Internal Revenue Service.

We restrict access to your NPI to our employees and others who we feel must use it to provide our services. Their use of NPI is limited by law, our employee code of conduct, and written agreements where appropriate. We also maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your NPI.

When you visit our Websites, we use the information we collect to provide services to you. We also use it to understand what you want so that we can enhance your online experience. Information that does not identify you, or that you give us for contests or surveys, may be used for marketing purposes.

Website NPI helps us understand what you want so that during your next visit to our Website, your experience will be even better.

Why do you ask for my e-mail address?

We collect your e-mail address so that we can send you e-mails concerning your transactions with us. We will not share this information or your e-mail address with other companies for their marketing purposes without your consent.

What about Website security?

Our security measures help ensure that your data is secured so that others cannot access it while in transit. We limit access to our servers and require our employees to adhere to high standards of ethics and integrity in performing their jobs.

What about links to other Websites?

Our Website contains links to other sites that are not ours. These links are for your convenience. We make no warranties or representations about other Websites. You should read the privacy and security policies of these sites.

What does the technical jargon mean?

Cookie: A small text file saved in your computer when you access certain Web pages. Cookies identify you to the Website that gave you the cookies.

Digital certificate: A small file that can be transferred to your computer and used for authentication. Once installed, it can be automatically used as needed.

Internet protocol (IP) address: A string of numbers that are translated into a domain name.

Operating system: The program responsible for overseeing the basic hardware resources of a computer. UNIX, DOS, Windows, and Macintosh System 7 are examples of operating systems.

Secure server: A computer system set up to provide privacy, integrity, and authentication in communications. (See SSL).

Security protocol: A specification that describes how computers will talk securely to each other on a computer network.

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL): A protocol that delivers server authentication, date encryption, and message integrity. SSL encrypts Internet communications.

Session ID: The code used to keep track of a person as they interact with a server.

Site certificate: This is the same as a digital certificate, but it is used on the server rather than at the browser.

128-bite encryption: A way of making data unreadable to everyone except the receiver. It’s a common way of sending credit card numbers and date over the Internet. It is used by SSL.